Re: Ambiguous ref names

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2009, 10:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzl6h3319.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5195c8760911200218v5b75d690hbaaf00b44c8df6af@mail.gmail.com>

Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com> writes:

> If I've two branches a.b.c and a.b.c.d, why does 'git checkout'
> complains about ambiguous ref names?

Because it doesn't???

    : demo; git init
    Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/gomi/twelve/.git/
    : demo/master; >f
    : demo/master; git add f
    : demo/master; git commit -a -m 'initial'
    [master (root-commit) cb1d5f2] initial
     0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
     create mode 100644 f
    : demo/master; git branch a.b.c
    : demo/master; git branch a.b.c.d
    : demo/master; git checkout a.b.c
    Switched to branch 'a.b.c'

It could be that you have a tag and a branch that are both named a.b.c, though.